From: | Muhammad Ikram <mmikram(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Arbol One <ArbolOne(at)hotmail(dot)ca>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Where is my app installed? |
Date: | 2024-08-23 04:57:39 |
Message-ID: | CAGeimVqwrd5TFcAaW1NSsMwPTRyokvSfWVACrH-s2tg865u=Qg@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi Arbol,
Try to find any binary e.g.
find /usr -name pg_ctl
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl
find /usr -name psql
/usr/bin/psql
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql
/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/psql
Later you may create a symlink or add in PATH.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Ikram
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 7:43 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:
> On 8/22/24 19:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
> >> On 8/22/24 17:36, Arbol One wrote:
> >>> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres
> >>> --version' and got this msg:
> >>> *bash: postgres: command not found*
> >>> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
> >>> *psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)*
> >>> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the
> >>> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.
> >
> >> As to where the postgres command is:
> >> ls -al /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/
> >
> > Theory 1: postgres is packaged in a "postgresql-server" package
> > and the OP only installed the base (client-side) package.
> >
> > Theory 2: postgres is installed into some directory not in the OP's
> > PATH, such as /usr/sbin. Since it's primarily used as a daemon,
> > this'd be a reasonable thing for a packager to do.
>
> Yes in:
>
> ls -al /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/
>
> >
> > I'd bet a nickel on #1, though, because I've not seen too many
> > packagers put postgres somewhere other than where they put psql.
> > "Separate server package" is extremely common though.
>
> Correct. The missing part is that in Debian/Ubuntu packaging when you
> use psql you are actually doing:
>
> ls -al /usr/bin/psql
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Aug 8 07:37 /usr/bin/psql ->
> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
>
> The Debian packaging routes most things through
> pg_wrapper/postgresql-common a Perl script that does the magic of
> finding the correct binaries for each Postgres version.
>
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>
>
>
>
--
Muhammad Ikram
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